Main image: Robert Adam's designs for the Octagonal Dressing Room in Coventry House on Piccadilly (image © John Bridges)
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Exhibition: "Robert Adam’s London" at Sir John Soane’s Museum (30th November 2016 - 11th March 2017)
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